The World's Rarest Books According to Rare Bookseller | Meet Tom Ayling | Profoundly Pointless

What makes something valuable: 00:00
How to find rare books and collectibles: 04:42
What makes a book valuable: 06:23
Counterfeiting rare books: 11:33
Buying and collecting rare books: 15:00
The rarest books in the world: 21:20
Rarest Harry Potter book / Rare modern books: 38:28
The Top 5 Collectibles: 01:14:22

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[awen]

I'm an old retired farmer who got sent to a special reading program to catch up with my classmates at age 7. Been obsessed ever since. My collection is in storage and now in old age it is difficult to find interested people of like mind. So many potentially very rare books just sitting in storage!

[kenmcclellan]

One of the great experiences in life is a Find ... a treasure someone had and didn't value. I was in a Virginia bookshop whose owner specialized in pulp fiction. Behind the counter, was some 'old junk' that didn't make it to the shelves. Old leatherbounds whose covers were splitting at the hinges. So I asked, "How much for those?" The answer: "How about $5 a volume?" They were Gladstone's three-volume set of Dryden's Virgil (1709) with the prime minister's bookplates and annotations!

[Marphurius]

Excellent interview - good questions, and precise, knowledgeable, informative answers! And that's pretty RARE on YouTube ;-)

[SF-rulp]

Totally fascinating interview! Thank you. G Ire

[MP_pov]

A great conversation on a topic I am fascinated by. Thank you.

[robertsimola]

And sometimes even the experts make mistakes. I bought a set of five books listed as having discolored fore edges. It turned out that the fore edges were "discolored" because each had a fore edge painting.

[berits.]

The difference between the eloquent vocabulary of Tom and the "stuff" the interviewer let out is worlds apart.

[mysteriousoul]

Looking for a rare recently published book? Try to get your hands on just about any special/limited edition Warhammer book!

[AbandonedNorthJersey]

I have a collection of Shoghi Effendi books of the Baha'i inscribed Saffa and Vafffa Kinney the dawn breakers 1932 marked only 150 made and signed by Shoghi Effendi is It valuable

[Mounircanada]

I have a rare book could you help me 😢 I wanna know the price it worth